Name: The Life Pursuit
Brand: Belle and Sebastian

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RTRADLP280

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-10-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0883870028011

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Total Cap

Black LPx2

Artist

Belle and Sebastian

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Rough Trade

Belle & Sebastian is an indie pop band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1996. The band is named after Belle Et Sébastien, a French novel about a boy (Sébastien) and his Pyrénées mountain dog (Belle). The novel became famous and a popular children's television series in France in the late 1960s, and then internationally in the early 1970s.
In October 2014 the band reissued all 11 of their releases, up to that point, under the series heading "The Jeepster Singles Collection", taken from the song with the same name that appeared on their album "Push Barman To Open Old Wounds".
Discover Belle & Sebastian's unique blend of indie pop music and immerse yourself in their enchanting melodies and heartfelt lyrics. With over two decades of creating beautiful music, they have become icons of the genre.

Rough Trade is a multinational label that was started by Geoff Travis in 1976 as a London record-shop. It quickly grew into an independent label and distributor, collaborating with notable labels such as 4AD, Factory Records, and One Little Indian. The label's catalogue numbering system for singles/EPs included prefixes like RT### and RTT###CD for different formats. Albums were numbered sequentially as ROUGH### with extensions for different formats.In the early 1990s, Rough Trade faced financial difficulties after expanding into the US market. The US branch was shut down and the German branch ended up in the Zomba Music Group. One Little Indian provided financing and took over the label in the UK, retaining ownership of key releases like A.R. Kane albums. Geoff Travis eventually regained control of Rough Trade around 1999–2000 and re-launched it alongside Tugboat Records.

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The Life Pursuit is nothing short of a revelation. Produced by Tony Hoffer, this album feels both familiar and strange at the same time. There is a powerful aesthetic at the heart of The Life Pursuit that places it at some time in the early-to-middle seventies without ever specifically sounding like anything you can put your finger on. It is more muscular than previous Belle and Sebastian albums - and there is a gravitation towards a liver, beatier sound - but unlike any of their peers, it is impossible to reduce their influences to a few key sources.

Belle and Sebastian pull in stuff from all over the place, so that Sly and the Family Stone / Funkadelic inflections ("Song For Sunshine") sits side by side with the classic bubblegum riffs and call-and-response vocals of "White Collar Boy" (another sure-fire stomping single); the "Queen Bitch-era" Bowie stylings of "Sukie In The Graveyard"; the glammy T-Rex of "The Blues Are Still Blue"; the prime-time miserablism of a Terry Hall ("Mornington Crescent") and the irrepressible rousing piano drive of "The Price of a cup of Tea". It also includes the impossibly perfect slice of Motown-pop in the name of lead single "Funny Little Frog".

The Life Pursuit

Music GB

Discover The Life Pursuit by Belle and Sebastian on CD and LP formats from Rough Trade. A revelation in music, blending various influences for a unique sound.